Google is making a big content push with its Google Play Store, and part of that is music. The Play Music experience hasn’t exactly racked up huge sales, but many users have been happy to take Google up on that free storage space for 20,000 songs. In an effort to get users to buy more tracks from the Play Store, Android 4.1 will include a home screen widget called Sound Search that can identify a song, much like Shazaam.

The app has been pulled from the Nexus 7 system image and compiled as a standard APK. It can be sideloaded on any Android 4.0 or higher device. Be aware that this is just a widget; there is no app associated with it. I found that the songs were identified fairly quickly, and I’d even say a little faster than Shazam. The widget will pull up the album art and price for the song. Then you can tap to head right into the Play Store and buy it yourself. It’s a slick experience when it works.

Strangely, I found that the widget was unable to identify tracks that Google doesn’t have for sale. It found no matches for “Hey Jude” by the Beatles; easily one of the most recognizable songs of its era. Everything I tested has been uploaded to my personal Google Play storage, but that apparently does not matter. This is a cool widget that can make buying music from Google easier, but the limited selection in Google Play means this app has similarly limited appeal.

You can check out the widget yourself if you have a compatible phone by downloading the APK on your device and making sure you have “unknown sources” enabled in your phone settings.